Remove Delaware programme (6)

I believe the answer is:

delist

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'remove' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'delaware programme' is the wordplay.
'delaware' becomes 'de' (standard two letter abbrev).
'programme' becomes 'list' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'de'+'list'='DELIST'

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I've seen this clue in The Hindu.

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